i feel like i mention this in all of my blog posts, but when i first started daydreaming, i had a different "daydream story" that i do now. it had different characters, a different plot... you know. but then, i grew out of that and stopped daydreaming for a few months. then, it started all over again with new characters and  a new plot, and this time, it came with pacing. but that's not the point of this blog post.

i've had my current characters since i was 12. now i'm 14, which means…

if an author writes a story with a main character that is an obvious idealized version of themselves-- gorgeous, talented, smart, practically perfect, everyone is in love with her-- people say that the character is a "mary sue". almost all of the time, a story with a mary sue as a main character will get bad reviews, just because the character is a mary sue.

as i have said before in a different blog post, i have had two different daydream stories. one that i stopped…